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@ImBreckWorsham Nor ever will.

A primary qualification for the next president is they must have NEVER kissed that wall.

@starsandstripes Withhold funds until he actually briefs Congress as required by the 2025 NDAA JES pg 59/60 on herbicides and other toxins in the Panama CZ. He is over a year and a half late. Panama vets suffer because of this.

The Senate Armed Services Committee is threatening to withhold most of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel funds until he provides information on a series of deadly strikes, including one on a girls’ school in Iran and alleged drug boats in the waters off South America. stripes.com/theaters/us/20…

@timburchett @KJanoski50502 @SecVetAffairs Well Tim seems like all the cabinet heads are on perpetual sightseeing tours and do little to address actual issues. Hegseth is at NASCAR while Panama vets wait over a year from him to brief Congress as required by the 2025 NDAA JES pg 59/60.

The @SecVetAffairs is a good man. He will address this.

@DOWResponse Of course. Anything not to brief Congress as required by the 2025 NDAA Joint Explanatory Statement pg 59/60 on herbicides and other toxins shipped stored or used in the Panama CZ.

HAPPY RACE DAY AMERICA!!!

@HouseGOP You spend it like it’s yours.

You work hard for your paycheck. Why do Democrats act like it belongs to them?

@SecVetAffairs Did he teach you not to stand back and say nothing when Congress or the DoD is trying to reduce earned benefits? Or when you say there is cooperation between departments and you still say nothing about the DoD ignoring a required briefing for Panama CZ veterans?

My dad wore the badge as a Georgia State Trooper for 32 years.  Long before I entered public service, he showed me what service looked like - do your job, keep your word and put others first. Those lessons have stayed with me my entire life.  Happy Father’s Day.

@HouseVetAffairs Congress should pass a clean Major Richard Star Act . Stop trying to save money on the backs of veterans by reducing their benefits for which the VA and Congress set for your useless foreign wars

SUNDAY MORNING READ 📰: Congress should pass the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act. HR 9237 includes the Major Richard Star Act and 60+ bills that would make sure veterans get the care they deserve. Read more ⬇️ thehill.com/opinion/592754…

@AbbysDeadFetus @curmudgeonatlg @HouseVetAffairs Especially Republicans. They are the worst. They didn’t want to pass the PACT ACT. Yet every friggin time they find billions to fund the wars of foreign countries.

@HouseVetAffairs Congress hates vets. That’s a fact. Else, why do we need NGO’s like Wounded Warrior and Towers2Tunnels to close the gap between veteran’s needs and congresses funding? You’ve never taken care of us. Yet use is us props for your campaigns. Fuck all of you.

Members of Congress need to understand that they need to be responsible stewards to American taxpayers. If Members believe another offset is preferable for H.R. 9237 – they can offer one – we cannot pretend the cost does not exist.

@marklevinshow Between 1946 and 2024, over $1 trillion,or roughly 30% of all US foreign aid, has gone to five countries: Israel ($337.0 billion)Egypt ($198.9 billion), former South Vietnam ($193.8 billion), Afghanistan ($168.5 billion), and South Korea ($127.6 billion), adjusting for inflation.

Here’s top 10 countries lobbying our country.  You ok with the first 9 since you didn’t mention any of them. Why is that? It's Saturday night. I'm spending time with my family. I'm not interested in dating you. Why don't you take a little time off? opensecrets.org/fara

@burrito_capital @curmudgeonatlg @johnkonrad @POTUS @SecVetAffairs So answer me this. What major change has “he” implemented? Nothing. He has done absolutely nothing. Two Rulemakings are still out their gathering dust. The Tinnitus and Sleep Apnea and AR 10 herbicides and other toxins. We get platitudes.

Not so, he could fire all of them and by the time it got to court it might be reversed but he could. The problem with the VA is that they see veterans as a cost savings for their budget rather than people that may have legitimate issues. Dead veterans cost them the least, so there is that too

When I was a kid, the Bronx was burning. My dad was a fireman who happened to be an Ivy League graduate. He told me it wasn’t the crackheads torching the city, whatever the news said. It was fraud. Let me explain how it worked…. John Doe buys a rundown apartment building for $100k. He pockets the redevelopment tax break, then sells it to Joe Doe for $250k. Joe pockets the tax break, then sells it to Jerry Doe for $500k. Rinse and repeat until the building is worth $5 million. The tax breaks are real. The money is not. Because the buyers are all family, the cash flows out of Swiss bank account 27852 and right back into 27852 after every sale. There’s a transaction cost, sure, but the tax breaks more than cover it. Then comes the payoff: they insure the building for $5 million and burn it down. The name for this was “Jewish Lightning.” The phrase stuck around not because the landlords were all Jewish, but because the stereotype hit a nerve in a city run by Jewish mayors from 1974 to 1989, the peak of the burning. Fair or not, the term stuck. So why was none of this investigated? NGO funding, of course. The NYPD union was powerful, and NYC detectives had sweeping investigative authority over almost everything. Except arson. Arson belonged to FDNY detectives. NGOs, routing money through union donations, stoked the rivalry between cops and firemen. Long story short, arson investigators got no funding and zero cooperation from the NYPD. No money for investigations means no arrests. Eventually the Bronx ran out of buildings to burn, and Giuliani drove the final nail into arson fraud’s coffin. But the lesson survived, and it’s the foundation of today’s fraud. The lesson was this: the actual value of the asset doesn’t matter. 👉What matters is the movement of money. Destruction is still very profitable. When the Baltimore bridge collapsed, the cleanup and rebuild were estimated at $1.7 billion, with the bridge reopening in 2028. The cost has since ballooned to $5.2 billion, and the wreckage still isn’t fully cleared. Money pours into demolition,, engineering, environmental review, project management, waste removal. But if the work doesn’t actually get done, the real expenses stay low. The money moves; the bridge doesn’t. And here’s the leap: you don’t have to destroy anything at all. You just have to not build it. Democrats allocate money to a government body, which hands it to a project manager, who hires consultants, who hire subcontractors, who hire more subcontractors, who funnel it back to Democrats, who allocate more money. The fewer the actual costs (labor, materials, equipment) the more of the flow you can capture. And if a taxpayer complains, you hire a PR firm and a few consultants to explain why costs keep exploding while nothing gets built. The easiest thing to blame is red tape. So why does red tape exist? Because destroying valuable property, while profitable, is too obviously unethical. Burning buildings gets you arrested, eventually. Not building gets you a ribbon-cutting and a press release. Here’s the deeper trap. Because our most valuable assets are fixed (houses, cars, index funds) we think of money as static. You have what you have. It grows over time, but it doesn’t flow. That’s exactly where the fraud lives: in the flow. The light bulb moment was realizing you don’t need to destroy physical property. You only need to destroy productivity. If labor and materials are never purchased while money pours in, the fraud works. You don’t have to build or destroy anything of value, just productivity. You just announce a project and start writing checks while throwing up enough red tape to block any real spending on labor and materials. This is basically why Congress handed @PeteButtigieg $1.2 trillion and our roads and bridges still suck five years later. They put up signs, traffic cones, and red tape, and little else. But there are a few residual problems. 1/2

@AIPAC @SenRickScott And Lebanese people have a right to live. Forgot that Rick.

Thank you @SenRickScott!

@NikkiHaley @_VanessaFrazier @UN Please save us your outrage over decorum. It happens every day. Just this time you open your mouth because it’s Israel.

Disgusting behavior by senior UN official @_VanessaFrazier interrupting a member state after she had her opportunity to give her remarks. The fact that @UN officials would allow this shows how far the institution has fallen. There should be a reprimand and statement by @antonioguterres I won’t hold my breath.

@naftalibennett So as long as someone warns you that they are going to blow up your neighbors for no good reason you are ok with it?

Piers, words matter. There is a war. There is no genocide. The IDF warns civilians before strikes, drops leaflets, makes phone calls, sends text messages, and opens evacuation routes. Can you name a single genocide in history where the attacking side repeatedly warned civilians to leave before military operations? This weekend alone, we lost five of our boys fighting Hezbollah face-to-face on the ground. If Israel’s goal were to kill Lebanese civilians indiscriminately, why would we risk our own troops instead of simply carpet-bombing entire areas? You’re smart and you know this. As for Ben Gvir: you’re citing the wrong person. I already told you he’s a clown. A noisy and incompetent clown. I would never have let him into my government, nor should Bibi have. Soon we’ll be replacing this miserable government. Ben Gvir insisted on rebranding himself as “National Security Minister” because he liked the dramatic title. In reality, he oversees the police. He doesn’t command the IDF, doesn’t formulate military strategy, and doesn’t make operational decisions in Lebanon. Quoting Ben Gvir to explain Israeli military policy is like quoting a loud backbencher to explain Britain’s war strategy. Israel’s actions are determined by its government and carried out by the IDF in accordance with international law.

@marklevinshow Killed in a foreign country fighting. Not killed in their own country defending it. Got it.

Apparently as long as Israeli soldiers are killed the ceasefire is holding

@GenFlynn “War is Peace” “The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. [...] The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over [other states] but to keep the very structure” George Orwell

Ernest Hemingway wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls” which signifies death. War is the norm. Peace is the aberration.

@burrito_capital @curmudgeonatlg @johnkonrad @POTUS @SecVetAffairs Secretary Collins nor any of the other secretaries have the power to act on their own to change anything. They are told what to say and do. They are spokespersons flying around handing out platitudes while someone else pulls the strings. He does nothing because he can’t.

@johnkonrad This is the VA in a nutshell. Higher per capita budget per veteran than ever, red tape keeping them from doing anything @POTUS you need to get a new @SecVetAffairs and fix this.

@SpencerGuard See Gaza. See Gaza scorched earth. See tens of thousands of dead Palestinian women and children. So tell us again from a country that got raked over the coals for one dead Afghan civilian how those extraordinary measures worked please.

To be very clear: reality is very different from the rhetoric. The IDF takes extraordinary measures to mitigate civilian harm in Lebanon. In fact, as in Gaza, it employs more civilian harm mitigation measures than any military in past or current operations. The IDF issues evacuation warnings through multiple channels including text messages, phone calls, voicemails, flyers, radio, television, and social media. It operates dedicated civilian harm mitigation cells, tracks civilian presence through drones, cell phone data, and other ISR capabilities, and uses rigorous targeting processes that include legal reviews and proportionality assessments for any planned strikes. Legal reviews at lowest tactical level, and with the ability (which happens often as well as command decisions not to strike based on all context) to override commander decisions, unlike any other military. In southern Lebanon, these measures are particularly effective because civilians can move away from military objectives and active combat areas. Even in Beirut, the IDF has repeatedly provided warnings identifying specific buildings that will be struck and when. The warnings have proven so reliable that Lebanese citizens and journalists have set up cameras in advance to record the strikes. When targeting Hezbollah senior leaders, command meetings, or other military objectives in densely populated areas such as Dahiyeh (the Hezbollah controlled neighborhood of Beirut), the IDF relies on precision-guided munitions, small diameter munition (warheads with less explosives), and other low collateral damage munitions, detailed intelligence, and other methods designed to limit collateral damage while achieving the legitimate military objective. There is also no equivalency. Israel does not intentionally target civilians. Hezbollah is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization whose strategy includes deliberately attacking civilians. Hezbollah launches rockets, missiles, and drones at civilian communities in northern Israel (daily, despite any cease fires), targeting homes, schools, businesses, and civilian infrastructure. One side conducts legal reviews, proportionality assessments, civilian warnings, and precision strikes against military objectives. The other is a international designated terrorist group that intentionally places military assets among civilians while deliberately targeting civilians.

@SecVetAffairs @DeptVetAffairs What policy or said regulations do you systematically deny Panama CZ vets for their exposure to long since banned toxins. Initial denial was right dioxin wrong location. Supplemental denial you could not concede herbicide exposure due to policy or regulations. Year 3 on appeal

We’re focused on helping Veterans stay in their homes, this is another step toward keeping that promise.

@freakoutsideofx Ah I see. let me be clear let me be clear let me be clear let me be clear let me be clear let me be clear let me be clear let me be clear let me be clear let me be clear….

Perhaps the coolest thing about this ceiling at Obama Presidential Center is that all of the blue is made up of words from his speeches.🖤

@BasedMikeLee And what happens Mike? Absolutely Nothing.

The federal government makes you work months out of every year Then it uses that money to create horrible things that harm you Then it lies to you about it Time for a constitutional reset Share if you agree